[syslinux] pxelinux limits on imagefile for tftp transfer?
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Thu Jun 17 14:28:12 PDT 2004
Martin Egloff wrote:
> Hello specialists
>
> In setting up a diskless X-Terminal I got stuck with the transfer of the
> ramdisk from the
> server to the target.
>
> With a ramdisk image size of about 60 Mb things go well, the file gets
> transfered completely and Linux boots perfectly.
>
> With a ramdisk image size of about 104 Mb the tftp transfer of the
> kernel succeds but
> the transfer of the ramdisk image fails. As tftp daemon I use atftpd.
> Is log says:
>
> tftpd: Requested file to big, increase BLKSIZE
>
> At the end, the image is going to be 150 Mb. Is there any experiance out
> there with this size of image to transfer?
> Is there a way to convice pxelinux to use another (bigger) blocksize?
>
> Any help is apreciated
>
What version of atftpd? If this happens with 0.7, we should send a bug report
to the atftpd people (in the meantime you can use tftp-hpa); if this is an
earlier version, try atftpd 0.7.
With unicast TFTP, block numbers should just roll over harmlessly. Doesn't
work with multicast, however, but PXELINUX doesn't use it.
-hpa
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